How to search if your work has been stolen by someone or what to use to find the original artist?Use tineye.com www.tineye.com/

How to get help from this group if your work has been stolen?1)take screenshot of the thievery and your original image, paste them together into a single image

2)Upload as deviation

3)In image description, write your story

4)Click "CONTRIBUTE ART" icon on the top side of this group and submit the story of your stolen art.

5)If you can't find contribute art button or can't/don't want to upload the stolen work as a deviation, then click "Submit a Blog Entry" and write your story!Make sure to include a link to original artist` work.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`If you find an art thief on deviantart and wish to write a story about em- please provide at least 1 link to original image that the art thief stole from someone.

We are the legion of doom:

1)We CRUSH art theft!

2)We support artists who's art has been stolen.

3)We fight for artist rights!

4)We help YOU defeat art theft.

5)We show off various hilarious cases of art theft and write stories of its resolution.

How to search if your work has been stolen by someone or what to use to find the original artist?Use tineye.com www.tineye.com/

How to get help from this group if your work has been stolen?1)take screenshot of the thievery and your original image, paste them together into a single image

2)Upload as deviation

3)In image description, write your story

4)Click "CONTRIBUTE ART" icon on the top side of this group and submit the story of your stolen art.

5)If you can't find contribute art button or can't/don't want to upload the stolen work as a deviation, then click "Submit a Blog Entry" and write your story!Make sure to include a link to original artist` work.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`If you find an art thief on deviantart and wish to write a story about em- please provide at least 1 link to original image that the art thief stole from someone.

WHO WE ARE:

5)We show off various cases of art theft and write stories of its resolution.

6)Educate DA world about art thievery

If your work has been stolen by someone on DA:click the "report violation" button, beneath the stolen artwork. Deviantart admins will take care of it.

If your work has been stolen externally from DA, contact us via a note and seek advice.

If you're an original artist and your work has been taken, and you wish to share your story with others, send us a note!________________________________________ FAQ:

How to search if your work has been stolen by someone or what to use to find the original source of an edited image?Use tineye.com: www.tineye.com/

There are also the options of SauceNAO saucenao.com/or IQDB iqdb.org/ which may find things that Tinyeye can't.

How to get help from this group if your work has been stolen? How to expose art theft?Send this group a note and write your story!Make sure to include a link to original work.

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ART THIEVERY:

It must not be prevented, it must be punished!

"Preventing" art thievery is a foolish endeavour:

1)Watermarks ruin images

2)Disabling right clicking makes wallpaper lovers cry

3)You're cheating yourself out of POTENTIAL INCOME!It's incredibly EASY to win cases of "artist vs art thieves" if they're in 1st world countries and if they've made profit off your art.In most cases the artists win settlements in thousands of dollars without EVER going to court.

COMMANDMENTS:1)I will not "prevent" art thievery2)I will laugh at art thieves, not be angry/afraid of them3)I will fight art thieves, win money and buy cake.

COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT LETTER

If anyone ever steals YOUR work, this is what you write to the thieves, be they an individual/magazine/website/newspaper/music band/etc.Simply fill in the blanks and erase the stuff in the brackets.

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To: __________________(art thief's name/company)

It has come to my attention that you have made an unauthorized use of my copyrighted Work entitled "____________ (name of stolen artwork)" in the publishing of a ___________(your website/advert/newspaper/magazine)

I have reserved all rights in the Work, which was first published on _______________ (date) at _______________(my website link), with copyright registered to me.The advert which appears in your __________ (website/magazine), is essentially identical to the Work and clearly used the Work as its basis.

You neither asked for nor received permission to use the Work as the basis for the advert, nor to make or distribute copies of it. Therefore, I believe you have willfully infringed my rights under 17 USC Section 101, et seq. and could be liable for statutory damages as high as $100,000.Under the copyright law I demand:Compensation and Immediately cease the use and distribution of all infringing works derived from the Work, and all copies of it, and that you deliver to me all unused, undistributed copies of it, or destroy such copies immediately, and that you desist from this or any other infringement of my rights in the future.

Also, I demand a compensation for the use of the image.Your company did not notify me, we did not sign any contracts, and I have not been paid for the use of my work.If I have not received an affirmative response from you in two weeks, indicating that you are ready to discuss terms of payment for the use of my work and comply with my requirements, I shall consider taking the full legal remedies available to rectify this situation.

Sincerely,

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DISCLAIMER:

~ SEND YOUR REPORTS THROUGH NOTE, PLEASE! ~

~ DON'T POST YOUR REPORTS ON THE COMMENTS SECTION ~

DISCLAIMER:

Please be "polite" to the art thieves, even if you know they've taken stuff. Do NOT flame. Do NOT act like a mindless, angry, hate-mob.Flaming will get you kicked from this group. We are not a mob, we are an organized machine to help artists fight art theft.Some art thieves simply don't bother to read DA upload rules or know nothing of copyright law.Fight art theft with the power of LOVE, LAW, and LOGIC.

1-inform the violator of the rules they're breaking, in a polite manner, like this for example:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Dear {{__________}},Please note that the image/deviation you have in your gallery is a copy/unlicensed edit of {{__________}} and is therefore a copyright violation. Because deviantart automatically writes "artwork (C) you" this means that you are taking the original artist's image rights, without permission.DeviantART policies on copyright violation are FAQ #8:What are violations of the DeviantArt copyright policy?.

I'm sure that the original artist would appreciate it if you credited for their hard work/asked their permission on whether you are allowed to use/repost their work.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

2-Report the deviation using the "report violation" button, ONLY if you're the first person to catch the thief.

3-if you suspect that the art thief has a ton of violations, send a report to this group in the form of a NOTE~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

ALL COMMENTS ABOUT "SUSPECTED" ART THIEVES WILL BE HIDDEN. (per request of DA administration)PLEASE REPORT ART THIEVES IN THE FORM OF A NOTE TO THE GROUP!